Reviewing the organization's structure roadmap

Organizations rarely stay static, and this is true for analytics teams supporting an organization. Consequently, we should expect the best-fit organizational structure for our analytic teams to change over time, as seen in the following diagram:

Figure 18.3 – Organization structure evolution roadmap

Fortunately, we can use Figure 18.3 as a quick way to determine whether our current program's size and scope match the right organizational evolution for the program's current state. For example, if the program has several people supporting one group such as a marketing department or sales team, then a reporting structure of a single MajorDomo with several technical specialists would be a good fit.

However, as the team grows to support many groups and has many people, then it makes sense to have multiple MajorDomos for regions or product lines, each with its own Data Specialists organized...